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Morton Downey Jr.'s American Tragedy
In his time, the late '80s, Morton Downey, Jr. was the hottest voice on television, loud and abrasive. For nearly two years, he brow beat and brawled his way to top ratings, ultimately alienating top tier guests, until his talk show devolved into somethi from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Evocateur
Morton Downey Jr. at the Friars Club to roast talk show host Jerry Springer in Beverly Hills, Calif. For a brief period in the late ’80s—long before the era of Fox News, Glenn Beck, and the 24-hour right-wing demagoguery cycle—there was The Morton Downey from Slate Read more »
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Tawana Brawley, Al Sharpton and Nelson Rockefeller, 25 Years Later
The Tawana Brawley case dominated the news for a time in 1987. Brawley was a black teenager who claimed to have been raped and abused by six white men. Her handlers, led by the “Reverend” Al Sharpton, falsely accused a policeman (who couldn’t defend hims from Power Line Read more »
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Retro Report Revisits Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley
RETRO REPORT has done a fifteen-minute documentary on the Tawana Brawley story, which starred MSNBC’s Al Sharpton. A short history as a refresher: In 1988, the nation learned the truth about the alleged crimes against Tawana Brawley, but the shocking sto from Taylor Marsh Read more »
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Sharpton, Issa and Living Down the Past
The big kerfuffle of the day concerns the attack on Representative Darrell Issa by presidential political advisor David Plouffe. In order to deflect attention away from Issa’s over-the-top, if accurate claim yesterday that White House press spokesman Jay from Commentary Read more »
